Not really a diary, but if you're a torrent user please load up the 230 meg ALEC Model Legislation data so we have a fast global mirror of this stuff.
A few words about what has been done differently than the files on ALEC Exposed are below the fold.
I pulled the zip files from ALEC Exposed as soon as I noticed them. The site might get a ceased & desist from ALEC or something, but if there are a bazillion copies out there that's a hopeless job for their law firm, and hopeless looks really good on those creeps.
The people who created these zip files used a Mac so there was a lot of OSX cruft in the archives. I pulled out all the PDF files and put them into a single 230 meg archive, preserving the directory structure so you can tell what's what.
A handful of the files had parens or other special characters that make unix crabby, so I fixed that by removing them, replacing spaces with underscores, and so forth.
The files were turned into a torrent using uTorrent and the resulting file was loaded to an account on The Pirate Bay, a site Anonymous often uses for data dumps. I hope some of them are around and they catch this, as this is the sort of thing they like and it would be nice to have a few hundred seeds for this concent.
The site says there were 800+ files, but I only found 624 in the zip files I pulled. I checked twice, I don't think I missed anything. If anyone sees where I missed 180 files tell me, but meantime I am pushing this out as is.
And to the people behind ALEC I say ...
OK, 6:25 PM Central and I see peers dropping off as they complete. Some of the places where this is located are very fast - give your torrent client a few minutes to warm up and you should get the content as fast as your internet connection will allow.